A new study reveals that children born during the pandemic are having issues with motor skills and social development due to the stress the pandemic has on the mother during pregnancy.
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New Study Finds Developmental Differences For Children Born During Pandemic
Nobody should be having babies during this pandemic (or at all) if they can’t properly care for them. That’s being selfish.
Wow, anything to get funding!
So a pool of 200 during the pandemic but only 60 from before and just in New York?
I had a baby prior pandemic and one during lol. There is no alarming finding.
I kept trying to explain to people that my son’s ADHD was possibly caused from me being in a Domestic Violence situations and I was already a domestic violence survivor. I bet this is possible
this is kinda ableist
I’m glad this is being discussed. I’ve always felt that the grief and stress I experienced while carrying my child (pre-pandemic) contributed to developmental challenges. Having had some treatment during pregnancy might have made a difference.
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Don’t blame yourself or the availability of treatments. Work with what God gave you and use your hands to knead and mold what you need. I had it all and none worked. Till I did my own 😉
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I didn’t think there were people dumb enough to be conceiving during a pandemic.. Guess not 🤷🏼♂️
I smell another lawsuit for Trump… Allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll pregnant women that were affected by the pandemic during his administration should lawyer up.
It has nothing to do with the plan lol the v is the cause it was designed to do that
We are so fckd. Who here has seen the movie Idiocracy? It’s powerfully accurate.
You would think that a baby would BENEFIT from parents staying home, but it’s probably just the domestic abuse.
How many women were killed by their spouses..? Some survived and held to term.
Think of the kind of people who chose to bring a baby into this uncertain world during 2020 too. It weren’t just the celebs.
Thankfully my son is big and healthy . His mother did not stress while being pregnant . Hes so smart 🙏🏻
Denial. Wait for it, early development is vital and it’s effects are seen throughout adulthood. Don’t be naive and pretend that science doesn’t matter only your feelings do.
They need to study the babies born to women who have had the jab!
With American toxic work culture and how most workplaces get away treating pregnant workers this was stressing women waaaay before the pandemic.
That’s it we’re done for
Wait until they admit what the vax is doing to people….
Were the ladies vaxed?
You guys keep acting like it ended. Lol.
Media: women shouldn’t stress or it’ll effect your babies growth.
Same media: “if you’re not vaccinated you’ll die”
You’re calling it stress causing fine motor skill problems, but how do you know whether or not it was the vaccine?
I wonder how much mask wearing around children effects their social development
So capitalism is at fault? He said lack of housing and food. That’s capitalism not a pandemic.
Ahh… the news .. fearmongers….
Given that science has shown how important early development is; could we expect that these early deficiencies will have noticeable effects in adulthood?
In all honestly, I think it’s pretty negligent to conceive during a pandemic and such uncertain times. I think our world needs to reconcile the reality that it’s simply an optically selfless decision (mainly due to cultural and religious variables, reflected in taxes and society as a whole), and after any serious thought, it’s really obvious that it’s an incredibly selfish decision. If it’s an accident I understand, provided reasonable contraceptive measures were taken. On the other hand if you’re trying and you end up with twins, you’ll know why.
🧢!!!! These pandemic babies are advanced!!!!
I disagree with this study. I had a pandemic baby, and so did a bunch of my friends.
We were stressed…. But the children are pretty malleable. In fact all the pandemic babies I know are advanced. My daughter is 18 months old and knows her abc’s, the phonics sounds they make , and her colors. She even started picking up Spanish words, from me watching Spanish YouTubers hahaha
The other 14 pandemic babies I know, are all advanced.
Maybe those babies had mothers with depression. Depression can impact development.. but usually it comes to be through developing psychological issues with age.
Well this isn’t a surprise! Imagine the trauma unborn babies have gone through on a day to day long before the pandemic. If the child’s mother is suffering any form of trauma you better believe the unborn child is too.
Well my nephew was born at the hieght of corona and is the most social baby ive seen and is walking around fine at under 1 year old
What about children ages 1 1/2- 2 years at the beginning and their social development at this point, my 4 year old is terrified when we are in public now. And she had a very hard time starting pre-k, meltdowns every morning at drop off and has just recently gotten past them and then BOOM they shut down our schools for 2 extra weeks when we were suppose to return from Christmas break. So after a total of a month out of school (if they go back) we may have to start that whole process over again, that has to be traumatizing to a child that age.
🙁 sorry to hear your child is having anxiety. I am so worried about how the young pandemic generation is going to turn out. They will probably be very stressed. Gen Z is already stressed out from current events and social media 😢
Stress kills. This is no surprise. Let’s not wait till a pandemic to be caring about prego women’s environment.
I bet you the same people that said covid is a lie will believe this.
I don’t think it’s just about stress, it’s about infection rates from virus’. Sleeping sickness appeared during the Spanish flu and higher rates of schizophrenia can be found during winter births where high rates of cold and flu is present.
Well Duh….
Lies
More MSM horse manure!
This Merica, people can want help but can they afford it
Sounds like everyday stress of Americans
i’m 17 weeks pregnant.
i do stress because almost everyone at my job is sick and coughs in my face. They don’t distance. They blast loud music (which I heard babies don’t like) They smoke right by the entrance. I’m always standing up. etc. non-work related: I have many mental disorders so i tend to stress regardless 😞 God willing this baby will be alright!
That’s horrible that your workplace is like that 🙁 I hope you can find time to relax in all this craziness ❤️
@Mage’s Almanac me too, but not with all the mandatory extra days they add every week 🥺
The vaccines are the real stress
Our granddaughter is above average and she was born during pandemic.
Where are the helpers for this stress?
We had a baby boy 7/9/21 and honestly babys born through this crap show I feel are advancing faster me and the wife were just having this talk. More time at home more time around familiar faces or mom and dad its a genuine connection that a broken schedule or the normal life going to the sitter or the grandparents while mom and dad work can’t provide my wife took the stay home role through his God bless her but our covid baby at 18 months is super advanced in speech and cognitive behavior were blessed mom had this time to nurture him compared to the two girls we have he’s definitely further at this age than them.
This is interesting. I’m a nanny for a 5 month old who’s development is very concerning for me so this makes sense. She has barely any muscle tone and can’t roll over, sit up, swallow properly, or hold her head up on while on her tummy.
I was being physically abused by one of our finest border patrol agents during my pregnancies. Extreme stress. My son he is on the lower end of the autism spectrum now. My daughter was born fine. No problems whatsoever. Same amount of stress both pregnancies.
This isn’t good. The world needs to slow down. Mother’s
Should be in a safe and protective environment. Calm and not working.
I mean, it couldn’t possibly be related to the numbers of children staying home with a parent? More likely to be held (gross motor), more likely to have limited social interaction (social development), more likely to have smaller group interactions with more adult help (small motor). I dont know what all they studied, but this seems like a conclusion that went looking for evidence, not evidence leading to a conclusion.
For any first time moms, my only advice is to ignore the war stories. I realize i had my babies before the pandamnit, but i realized after my first birth that all of those stories were scare tactics. 💗 I still remember holding my 8 lb+ baby (and yes I’m small framed) and thinking … “ok, it wasn’t the easiest thing ever, but I was waaaay more fearful than i needed to be.” Then i couldn’t get over how much i loved my baby. I was thinking i would not be able to bond at all. Instead, i fell in love with that mini-Me 🥰
Congratulations to any new moms or moms to be. They grow fast. Enjoy it 💗💗💗
Stress over lack of housing, food and work.. so basically this is a problem that affects the poor and lower middle class. 🙁 It’s awful.
Imagine being pregnant during a real catastrophe like WW2, Spanish Flu or The Great Depression and not a bad version of the flu.
Probably has nothing to do with an experimental drug that clearly didn’t stop what it said it was designed to stop.. probably why they are trying to force it upon people as well.
Yeah we seen that with the baby holding his head up looking around.
You mean Vaccine is doing it lol ??? They trying not to say that
I thought this info was common sense but I guess not. 🤔
Now tell me why in the spring of 2020 in the middle of all the unknowns and panic that scientists thought to themselves “hmmm, we should study 250 pregnant moms and see what happens to their babies developmentally” when there was no reason to think anything would happen at all. Seems pretty random unless someone had some reason ahead of the pandemic to suspect that Covid would impact unborn babies. All those “Pandemic babies” videos on TikTok and IG….maybe Covid was designed to do something 🤷🏼♀️😏
Nobody saying if the correlation is the mRNA jabs?
They say anything 🙄
Lol its so obvious its the effect of the mRNA jabs …NOT the stress..mothers to be willingly went to get the jab,some didnt..it is NOT the stress.CDC,FDA always place the blame on other things ..if one notices since the “plandemic” started..
In our haste to protect a dying elderly generation, we may have just dammed the next one…. God help us all.
Covid Generating a Generation of Covid
That’s not completely true. You need to confirm by checking each individual to find out for sure. You can’t anticipate things like this without confirmation
We will have all pregnant women and their babies in our prayers put your entire trust only in God only and also just tell the heavenly father that he and only he has total control of the entire situation amen
As a parent of a 2020 baby and a early childhood development professional this is bull! These 2020 babies are smart and advanced. All kids develop at their own pace! You can’t compare children like that.
blah blah blah every mom thibks their kid is sooo special…
Is there a study about babies born to mothers living with racism past and present. It would be interesting to see what that stress caused.
wonder if the vaccine has anything to do with it???
They superhuman!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
So basically white kids because we all know this study used one of mostly white subjects therefore it’s irrelevant.
I have a sibling on the spectrum and it is extremely difficult to help raised one.
Mother’s need to stay off social media to not stress nowadays.
Where can I find this study?
I gave birth to my daughter April 2021 and I was having strokes ( diagnosed with TIA ) , lost my home, lost my job but I can actually say my daughter just turned 9 months and she already crawling, talking and she already trying to walk. With god Grace life gets better with each and one of us 🙏🏼
Watch TikTok to see other babies with the same situation. Some children attempting to talk only days old, walking only 4 months old??? ? Something not normal here. But these are the results from the “experiment” and ongoing “experiment”. There is a reason the news is covering it up. But, people are posting the real news on social media.
Godbless🌺
Probably due the wearing masks 😷
Its not due to the stress on the mother during pregnancy ..once the child was born there was nothing but lockdowns, isolation, families who couldnt visit family, daycare centers shut, less meetups with parents /other kids …ALL LEADING TO PROBLEMS IN NORMAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT.Stop lying to the public saying its stress on mothers..developmental milestones are affected post 2020..keep this in mind..
Creepy
These tick tock pandemic babies be talking and flipping at three months…
Why is it only pregnant women that have to ‘do’ something? What about their partner’s? What about governments? I love how childbirth and pregnancy is always just seen as a ‘womans’ issue rather than a societal responsibility.
Why wasn’t the question “what can anyone do?” Not just “what can women do?” Women’s health is everyone’s health. Why is it just the responsibility of the mother already bearing so much weight of life, to deal with the stressors of a pandemic on her own?
If your a Republican you think your pandemic baby is superhuman.
If your a Democrat you’re worried that your baby will need to catch up after birth because of the stress.
If you’re a Trumper or anti-vaxxer your baby will be a hillbilly and you won’t be able to get health insurance or find a job that pays well in four years.
Society has proven that all of the pandemic babies are far advanced than their predecessors of other years. What is seen is stress is making them grow up faster, so what will be the long-term effects of that? Their fine motor skills are fine they are just doing things in earlier age. I am not sure what study they were doing this is the one. This is the one time the Internet is proving them wrong.
People who decided to have children during this uncertain time are incredibly selfish.
Wait till the world sees the babies from vaccinated moms and dads.. thats what really scares me!!! Dont worry we spent 10 years testing vaccinne first like fauci said was required for safety in 2019.. of wait he flip flopped and said a few months is enough.. he really said it sadly
He said stress so what about the vaccinated women during pregnancy??? Funny he ain’t mentioned anything about that 🤣🤣 america so done for !!🙏🤷🙈🙊🙉
It’s official… Covid is the Protomolecule 🤦🏿♂️
Well gee, who would have thought…
Seriously I saw that one coming
Study finds Developmental differences in babies born from parents who were vaccinated…
Duh
Let’s hope it’s smart juice
Why go through all the trouble covering this study and not giving any recourse on where to get help for families suffering pandemic stress?
That sounds a LOT like Autism, which shows up earlier than at 18 months, but typically is not actively noticed by the parents until at least the 1 year mark, and is not taken seriously enough until several months later, when they take their kid in for testing. Normally, new parents aren’t followed closely from the moment of birth, and that’s what the difference is here. Anyway, there is an Autism genetic mutation, which you can read about at the nih.gov site (several articles on it over there). What this study may be suggesting is that the genetic mutation in question either can be caused during fetal development of a baby exposed to the coronavirus in women who are asymptomatically infected, or that Autism can be the result of a virus (in this case, exposure to Covid-19, but possibly other viruses that can be spread asymptomatically as well).
The researchers need to follow up on this. Dime to a dollar, Autism is, one way or another, the result of women being exposed to a virus (either through insemination with damaged genes in the sperm of aging men, or through sharing the air with them in enclosed spaces), and passing it on (either before, during, or after giving birth). What we do know is that viruses mess with the genetic structures in the cells they invade, causing them to misbehave, etc. This would also explain why Autism isn’t necessarily inherited (that anyone’s been able to trace), and yet it can run in families. If it’s being passed on virally, then that would explain it.
The stress of dealing with adult-children for husbands or other significant others, the stress of being beaten… It’s a pandemic. Does that man think that pregnant women aren’t vulnerable to the jerks they’re living with during this pandemic or something?!
The world now is not the same as it was in 2020. No one knew wth was going on or what to do. We literally couldn’t leave our house. That’s not the case now.
2 men discussing women’s issues that can’t relate to and don’t seem empathic at all. 🙄🤮
Such hypocrites…the media is a big source of that very stress. Vicious people
This is a blatant lie
My ex husband left me when I was 36 weeks pregnant with our 2nd child and that stress absolutely affected my son.
I wasn’t pregnant during the pandemic but if the pandemic did anything It brought my spouse and I closer ..The man was gone 24 hours a day walking those hospital floors treating patients 😒..he was off two days a week before the pandemic and now I see him everyday after 4pm ..I guess the pandemic helped in some aspects 😑